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1 Samuel 13 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - And Saul chooses for himself three thousand men of the men of Israel: and there were with Saul two thousand who were in Machmas, and in mount Bæthel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and he sent the rest of the people every man to his tent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:3 - And Jonathan smote Nasib the Philistine that dwelt in the hill; and the Philistines hear of it, and Saul sounds the trumpet through all the land, saying, [fn]The servants have despised us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4 - And all Israel heard say, Saul has smitten Nasib the Philistine; now Israel had been put to shame before the Philistines; and the children of Israel went up after Saul in Galgala.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - And the Philistines gather together to war with Israel; and then come up against Israel thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand by the seashore for multitude: and they come up, and encamp in Machmas, opposite Bæthoron southward.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw [fn]nigh, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:7 - And they that went over went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Galaad: and Saul was yet in Galgala, and all the people [fn]followed after him in amazement.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - And he continued seven days for the appointed [fn]testimony, as Samuel told him, and Samuel came not to Galgala, and his people were dispersed from him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:9 - And Saul said, Bring hither victims, that I may offer whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and he offered the whole-burnt-offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:10 - And it came to pass when he had finished offering the whole-burnt-offering, that Samuel arrived, and Saul went out to meet him, and to bless him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - And Samuel said, What hast thou done? and Saul said, Because I saw how the people were scattered from me, and thou wast not present as thou purposedst according to the set time of the days, and the Philistines were gathered to Machmas.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - Then I said, Now will the Philistines come down to me to Galgala, and I have not sought the face of the Lord: so I forced myself and offered the whole-burnt-offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly; for thou hast not kept my command, which the Lord commanded thee, as now the Lord would have confirmed thy kingdom over Israel for ever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:14 - But now thy kingdom shall not stand to thee, and the Lord shall seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord shall appoint him to be a ruler over his people, because thou hast not kept all that the Lord commanded thee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:15 - And Samuel arose, and departed from Galgala, and the remnant of the people went after Saul to meet him after the men of war, when they had come out of Galgala to Gabaa of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about six hundred men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:16 - And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people that were found with them, halted in Gabaa of Benjamin; and they wept: and the Philistines had encamped in Machmas.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:17 - And men came forth to destroy out of the land of the Philistines in three companies; one company turning by the way of Gophera toward the land of Sogal,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:18 - and another company turning the way of Bæthoron, and another company turning by the way of Gabae that turns aside to Gai of Sabim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:19 - And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:20 - And all Israel went down to the land of the Philistines to forge every one his reaping-hook and his tool, and every one his axe and his sickle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:21 - And it was near the time of vintage: and their tools were valued at three shekels for a [fn]ploughshare, and there was the same rate for the axe and the sickle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22 - And it came to pass in the days of the war of Machmas, that there was not a sword or spear found in the hand of all the people, that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and Jonathan his son was there found.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:23 - And there went out some from the camp of the Philistines to the place beyond Machmas.
BES Footnotes
Heb. העכיס as if העכריס.
Gr. to battle.
Gr. was amazed.
Or, set time.
Gr. Such is the meaning of ὀδοὺς according to the old interpretors.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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